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Grammar

Reference topics, verb conjugation tables, and example sentences in real use.

Verb conjugationPresent, past and future intent for every person. Nouns & possessivesHow nouns change for "my / your / his / our". Browse all sentencesFilter by verb, tense or person.

Reference topics

Short explanations with audio examples and a practice drill at the end.
The alphabet & the 9 special lettersBasics Kazakh is written in Cyrillic — 42 letters. If you can read Russian you already know 33 of them; the 9... Vowel harmony — the engine of KazakhBasics Almost every Kazakh suffix comes in two flavours. Which one you pick is decided by one simple rule — and... Personal pronouns & saying "I am…"Basics Kazakh has no word for "is" or "are" in the present tense. Instead, a personal ending attaches to the word... Plurals — лар, лер, дар, дер, тар, терBasics One plural suffix, six spellings. Vowel harmony picks the vowel; the word's last consonant picks the first... Possessives — my, your, ourBeginner "My book" in Kazakh is менің кітабым — the word for "my" AND an ending on the noun. The ending alone is... Locative case — in, at, on (-да/-де/-та/-те)Beginner Where English uses the prepositions in, at and on, Kazakh puts one ending on the noun itself: үйде — at... Dative case — to, towards (-ға/-ге/-қа/-ке)Beginner Movement towards something — "to school", "to Almaty", "to my friend" — is one ending in Kazakh. It is... Ablative case — from, out of (-дан/-ден/-тан/-тен/-нан/-нен)Beginner The mirror image of the dative: movement away. Алматыдан — from Almaty, жұмыстан — from work. It also... Asking questions — ма/ме/ба/бе/па/пе + question wordsBeginner Yes/no questions get a little particle at the end of the sentence; everything else uses a question word.... Saying no — verb negation, емес and жоқBeginner Kazakh has three different "not"s, and they are not interchangeable: a suffix inside the verb, емес after...

Verbs

Tap a verb to see its conjugation in present, past and future intent, with example sentences below each tense.
болу to be / to become бару to go келу to come жеу to eat ішу to drink көру to see білу to know айту to say / to tell жасау to do / to make алу to take беру to give сүю to love ұйықтау to sleep ойлау to think оқу to read / to study жазу to write жүру to walk / to go жүгіру to run тыңдау to listen үйрену to learn күлу to laugh жұмыс істеу to work тұру to live / to stand ұнау to please / to like сату to sell